On 2/7/14, 7:54 PM, Robbie Crash wrote: > For a home job, is there really any reason to use ECC RAM?
It only costs a little extra and provides peace of mind. > I'm running an i3 21020T, 32GB of normal non-ECC RAM, 4WD Green 2TBs and 4 > WD Black 1TBs each in RAIDZ, with a pool that I've filled and emptied twice > in the last few years, and aside from when a hdd froze last winter I've had > zero reported errors in my data and the only performance bottleneck is my > network speed. You're misunderstanding the purpose of ECC here. If you *do* have a random bit flip in DRAM, ZFS won't detect it, because the corrupted file block will have been written to stable storage and checksummed as "correct". ZFS *can't* protect you here. -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
